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Wow such a great answer, thanks for sharing the thoughts that went into this. It's crazy that there are so many considerations when taking into account the limited speed of light.

It is the 25th already.

Yes I've also tried it and reached similar conclusions. Do update it to the latest version though, as I did report an issue with non ASCII characters and for me it got fixed in v0.4.7+

Most likely it embedded a (g)zip inside the shell script? I've seen this frequently.

In the US, sure, but most of the world display prices inclusive of tax. (at least from my experience in EU and Asia)

What. No. In Singapore the state-built apartments (HDB flats) are sold not lent to the Singaporeans/permanent residents.

The state does not operate as a landlord. Most of the population owns their property here.

GW and TWh are not the same unit. You need to multiply by the hours of effective sun in a year (and applying some reduction factor for the fact that there isn't 24h of sun every day, nor that the full production capacity is reached)

Even if that doesn't cover the energy demand, the number is not negligible for 438 GW of capacity. Assuming that the effective full sun equivalent in terms of energy production is only 10% of a day in average, we get: 24 h/d × 365 d × 0.1 × 0.438 TW = 384 TWh

I have no idea about the 10% factor, someone more knowledgeable can coreect me, but, we are not speaking thousands of years if the growth continues before the full energy production value is getting close to the energy demand.

Priceless quote:

> With Legacy Support, organisations running their systems on top of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS can obtain an additional two years of expanded security maintenance and phone and ticket support. This enables IT managers to prepare a detailed upgrade plan for the next LTS

Yeah sure... Couldn't make that plan over the last 8 years, but two more will surely do it.

Ah, very interesting! I still have my sandstorm running over these many years (although seldom used, but amazingly it just continues to run/auto-update with no admin work needed).

I like the idea a lot, thanks for developing this and sharing to the community!

Yeah, learned about it while reading the documentation of Fossil (from the same SQLite people). Their approach certainly has its own merits (and drawbacks).

Just wondering how they will transition once the original few people at the top of the hierarchy need to retire, eventually it will happen.

I guess they need to find younger trusted committers with the same dedication and spirit. That's not necessarily easy. But for a piece of software as important as SQLite, I have a feeling they will find those.